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Parquet tools utility

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It is a well known fact, that parquet format is a binary format. And for humans, reading binary data is not as easy as opening a text file and understanding its contents. But no worries, today we'll learn how to read a parquet file . If you would like to understand all the internal details of a parquet file , you can please refer my previous article here . In this article I have tried to explain all the inner storage details of Parquet and answered most of the questions around its usage, efficiency and performance.                                                                                Parquet tools - As we know parquet is a binary format, we need an interpreter to translate its contents so that we can understand them. And this is what parquet-tools  utility project does...